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"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war." - Montesquieu Watching with interest the evolution of the Brexit negotiations in conjunction with the tone down stance between Italy and the European Commission surrounding the budget, while waiting for the next G20 and potential US...
By Seth Meyer In this video, Portfolio Manager Seth Meyer discusses the latest in high-yield fixed income, including how the market has changed and the current health of fundamentals and technicals within the sector. He also shares some strategies he believes can help generate yield whi...
Author's note: Data are taken from the close of October 19, 2018 , so numbers may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500+ closed-end funds [CEFs] for furth...
Ross Clark – Oil, Gold, Stocks, and Junk Bonds Wolf Richter – Stock Market, Real Estate and Interest Rates. Peter Ingram – Tax Planning, Cross Border Tax. Larry Reaugh - President & CEO of American Manganese Inc. Jim Pettit - Pre...
I don't care which sector you are in. I don't care which asset class is your priority. With the bare exception, lately, of Treasuries, we are in the House of Pain. In the last 60 days the DJIA is down 8.7%. The [[QQQ]], the largest of the ETFs representing the FAANG stocks, is down 13.0% and...
Please note : This article was first released to members of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory one month ago, so data may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report (September 2016), descr...
Background A few months ago, I wrote about the The Fed Dilemma . I have since then discussed the various points in more details. The last financial crisis was primarily caused by high leverage among households and financial institutions. Banks have deleveraged significantly since then and t...
Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) announces its portfolio composition as of September 30, 2018. Investment Objective: The Fund seeks to maximize current income. As a secondary objective, the Fund seeks capital appreciation to the extent consistent with its objective of...
Making the rounds today is this chart showing the level of U.S. corporate debt as a percentage of GDP vs. the high yield default rate. To not much surprise, the two have tended to move in concert over the last 40 years. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bl...
In the last five years, every time the stock market weakened by a similar magnitude as we saw this October, there was notable junk bond credit-spread widening. Even if one goes back further in time and looks at all sell-offs in this bull market that started in March 2009, one would see that se...
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2024-06-20 09:00:23 ET Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc (HIX) declaring a stock dividend of $0.049 per share on Ex-Date : June 21, 2024. Shareholders on record as of June 21, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for July 01, 2024, and the declaratio...
2024-05-23 05:00:26 ET It’s finally happening: Management fees on our favorite 8%+ paying assets— closed-end funds (CEFs) —are falling. And some are sending their already soaring dividends even higher, too. Those are key reasons to invest in these high-yield pla...
Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of January 31, 2024. Footnotes: (a) The difference between total assets and total net assets is due primarily to the Fund’s use of borrowings; total net assets do not include borr...